US presidency and congress gearing up for legal showdowns over ‘Trump crime family’

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THE US presidency and the new Democrat majority Congress are gearing up for war through the courts.

Attorney General Todd Blanche says Democrats talking of investigating Donald Trump and his family’s personal profiteering from office could face criminal investigation themselves.

“They are not allowed to just go around threatening existing members of the administration, to go around threatening companies, and that’s what President Trump is extremely worried about,” Mr Blanche said on Sunday.

Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia, set to chair the oversight committee in the House of Representatives, says he is preparing investigations into the “Trump crime family.”

Mr Trump, family members and administration allies are accused of corruption including insider trading, granting contracts to friends, issuing pardons to donors and much more. Democrats have also raised questions about where billions of dollars in proceeds from Venezuelan oil, sold following the US takeover of the country’s oil trade after it kidnapped Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in January, have ended up.

Mr Trump said the investigative access requests Democrats are already making amount to “extortion” and “they should be held accountable,” but Mr Garcia said “the days of us not fighting back are over.”

Democrat House leader Hakeem Jeffries said if members of the administration have been “shortchanging the American people, screwing over the American people, or stealing from the American people, then they need to be held accountable.”

But a note of caution was sounded by left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders, who said: “We cannot spend all our time investigating Trump. “We’ve got to stand up for working-class families, make a real difference in their lives.”

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